Iran Press/Europe: The terrorist organization said through its Amaq news agency that Usman Khan, 28, a convicted terrorist out on Britain’s equivalent of parole, had acted Friday on its behalf.
The group did not provide any specific evidence that the attack was done at its direction, but said it was carried out in response to its calls to target countries that have been part of a coalition fighting the terrorist group, New York Post reported.
“The person who carried out the London attack… was a fighter from the Islamic State, and did so in response to calls to target citizens of coalition countries,” ISIS said, referring to a multi-country alliance against the group.
Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said Saturday they believed Khan acted alone.
The Metropolitan Police on Saturday named the man responsible for the London Bridge terror attack as Usman Khan, a 28-year-old from Staffordshire who killed two people and injured at least three more seriously. The man wearing a fake suicide vest, went on a rampage at a criminal justice seminar he was attending in central London.
On Friday the incident began just before 2 pm on Friday, when the attacker, who had been attending the Learning Together criminal justice conference at Fishmongers’ Hall on London Bridge began stabbing fellow delegates with two large knives.
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